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TIL that during the peak of their powers about 10% of the entire Japanese population were samurais. Due to their large numbers nearly all Japanese alive today are descended from samurai

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8eyjK TIL Eddie Johns, whose song "More Spell on You" was sampled by Daft Punk in their song "One More Time" has received no royalties because the publishing company that owns the rights to the song has been unable to trace him since 1995. Johns is estimated to be owed six to seven figures in royalties.
rRgW1 TIL in terms of loss of life, Mao is thought to be the worst dictator of all time, with between 14,627,560 & 70,000,000+ deaths to his name.
nW4Q9 TIL: Henry Ford introduced the $5 work day in 1914, doubling his avg employees wages overnight and investing $10m of profits back into his employees coining the term "profit sharing" which helped launch the American middle class and was seen as "an honest wage for an honest days work."
D19WD TIL The James Bond film Goldeneye has a tank chase scene filmed in St.Petersburg, Russia. Using the utmost care, the crew staged stunts and explosions in the historic heart of the city. Crew members spent a week emptying around 90,000 cans of Perrier for the stunt sequence
DQ5mj TIL the singular of “spaghetti” is “spaghetto”